Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-07-27

seemed restless and disturbed. He was
IN one of what Lucia called his ''com-
pleN moods, when every opposite force
IN his nature seemed TO be 1T work 1t
one and the same time.
HIS friendship had always been
perplexity TO her.
Sometimes he would be genial, merry,
4 most charming, good comrade, and
then again cold, sad, and always more
or less strange.
y struggling young physician, proud
and poor, fighting down for honor's
sake a passionate, hopeless love.
Small wonder that he sometimes
moved rs If in u dream, for these con-
diets of the heart-all the sharper for
being noiSeleSs-are bound to leave
their scars upon the brain.
But Lucia did not guess any of this,
as i more widely experienced woman
might have done, and only wondered
that her friend-fOr he did seem that
10 her-should be at times 50 unfriend-
Ike.
Among men he passed for light OF
heart, careless kind of fellow, generous,
II little cold, but always ready to lift
4 burden for another, though never
I letting any one come too near his own
= z.
/ feeling silence was bes. in that lovely
| spot where one was so close to Nature
/ he could almost feel her warm, odorOus
breath on his cheek.
DIR. Holt was first To speak:
Miss Lucia, | wonder what you are
| thinking abOutt Do you know, your
| thoughts seem to flOat IN your eyes like
/ fish in q stream, always there jus:
/ below the surface, but not always easy
/ TO seize.
''It is very tantalizIng in you. YOI
/ look as II you had something to impart
and body gets 10 wondering and won
/ derlng what it Is until he finds himself
dong nothing else.
II really think you ought 10 stop It,
/ or else crafty 4 very blameleSs curios-
/ ity."
She opened her purple eyes wide.
and, giving him one Of her long, Inclu-
| sive looks, which seemed to adopt one
/ into her thoughts along with the beau
| uEul things already there, answered
| slowly.
Would You really like to know?
/ Why, l WAS Just thinking, if l were
/ rich, what great things l would 60 for
/ this river. IL IS terrible TO be pOOr,
/ isn't IL There are so few things you
/ can do"
| He leaned forward, picked up
/ stone, and threw it into the river.
Yes, II Is terrible 10 be poor.
/ sometimes wonder what good excuse =
/ poor man can offer for living"
/ HIS tone was 50 bitter that the girl
made haste 10 say:
You shouldn't talk that way; It is
wicked.
shouldn't II Well, perhaps not.
. somebody does SAY that poverty comes
o. Divine gift as well as riches, and 1
/ suppose it IS intended as n sort Of gri-t
. mill for ones supeTtluOuS pride, but
when everything IN "a mans nature
/ seems to run into that there's not much
of the poor fellow left by the time the
grinding IS over There IS one thing,
however," strengthening himself up
and looking across the river, THAT IS
. uupardOuab,e, and that IS for man
without money OF prospects OF money
10 indulge himself in that madness Of
the heart called love. He should keep
that organ empty until his pockets are
dlled, for = full heart and a slim purse
are an iIlmatei pair. AnyOtheT course
IS sheer lunacy, and should be a plea
sufficient Tor imprisonment in the
asylum for IGgO,S."
lie paused u moment for Lucia 10
answer, but as she did not speak he
continued in the same strain with
whimsical persistence, jeering at love
and lovers, and especially 1t those silly
folks ''who married for sentiment,
with nothing substantial 10 feed IL on,
or themselves either, for that matter. -
sui Lucia did not interrupt him
He kept his eyes fixed on the fields
10 the south, and seemsd unconscious
. of fhfa ylhprnHur,a nF his words
"a man commits a wrong when lie
asks a girl to marry him and has moth
ing To give her but his love. 1t Is
uesplcable in him, and sInfully weak IN
her To permit it. 1t is her simple duty
to refuse HIM, "a she would confirmed
druukard or any other incurable.
This bread and cheese and kisses
sentiment will do very well for novel
, iSt to use as peg on which to hang a
lot of sentimental twaddle; but it vii
not do for practical life. And in this
world we have to be practical.
, ~ girl ought to marry man who
. can provide for her, and If she ha
! choice between 4 rich suitor and poo
, one, she will be very silly indeed TO le
= a foolish fancy that anybody can out
live stand in the way OF her future
I well, comfort, or whatever the moderI
D I name LOT udpIl4ucSS -
There was curious strain in hi
I voice toward the last, and he tried L
= loosen it by forced laugh, aiding, a
/ # to himself, "God must have been IN
/ tended exclusively for the poor, for the
! can love Him, at any rate, wlthou
committing a SIM"
Lucia arose. There was faint nusl
! on her dark cheeks now.
s'If you have quite finished we WI
: 20 home. You recited your leSso
2 well, and, 1 hope, feel the pleasur
A., that arises from a consciousness
y having done ones duty. 1t was Just
!, tribe superfiuous, though, to waste 5
= much strong rhetoric on me, for neye
= had the slightest intention OF marryln
4 poor man"
:, She gathered her dress close aroun
e her rs she spoke, and proceeded |
I. climb up the bank, disdainlng his pro
ID fered assistance, and, alas, not seem
: the pIined and weary look IN "a
y eves-a look as Of one worn out in life
Y struggle. And he could not guess m tns
tha proud little heart was almost burs
inc and that tears were falling silentl
= one by one. for the slim young ngul
>. Vas carried as eject as ever, and Il
- head never once drooped as she wake
m On before him.
!. And so these two went home throu.
the March woods, with 4 mountain
g Misunderstanding between them
a The sun covered up his head behil
- the hills. and the air grew chill. :
IN they neared Lucia's home they M
= John Terrell coming out
,y He was a good-looking man, tail ~
well put together, but with a certal
IL patronizing manner which was very {
:. asperating at times. y fine town nous
- large interests IN railroad compahle
,e banks, etc, in connection Win
n. thirty-fve years of confirmed hacheIo
NJ hood. made him quite lion IN fui
NJ society. ,